Our Lady of Guadalupe
Date
February 15, 1729
Creator
Location
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe [Our Lady of Guadalupe] is the Virgin Mary as she appeared in 1531 to Juan Diego, an Aztec convert to Christianity. The visions occurred at Tepeyac, a hill northeast of Mexico City... [and] are described in the Nican mopohua (Here It Is Recounted), an anonymous account written in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and published in 1649. The earliest painting containing the apparitions is dated 1668...In the classic pose associated with the story, she wears a crown and stands on a crescent moon supported by an angel. The radiance of the sun surrounds her, and the Holy Spirit hovers overhead as a dove. Castilian roses connecting the corners of the composition and four simple oval frames containing apparitions associated with the narrative are seventeenth-century Baroque features that the artist rendered with ease and facility. The apparitions read from left to right, top to bottom...The first time the Virgin appears to Juan Diego, she instructs him to tell the bishop that she...wants a chapel built in her honor on Tepeyac. Juan visits Bishop Zumárraga, who rebuffs him and tells him not to return without proof. He attempts to avoid the Virgin, but she stops him and tells him to pick flowers that are blooming on top of Tepeyac. Juan dutifully collects blossoms in his cloak and brings them to the Virgin, who gathers them up in her hands, replaces them in the cloak, and tells Juan to hurry to the bishop’s house. When he opens his cloak before the bishop, a miraculous painting of Mary is revealed upon it. The stubborn bishop falls on his knees in awe, and the chapel is built. from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)
![Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe [Our Lady of Guadalupe] is the Virgin Mary as she appeared in 1531 to Juan Diego, an Aztec convert to Christianity. The visions occurred at Tepeyac, a hill northeast of Mexico City... [and] are described in the Nican mopohua (Here It Is Recounted), an anonymous account written in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and published in 1649. The earliest painting containing the apparitions is dated 1668...In the classic pose associated with the story, she wears a crown and stands on a crescent moon supported by an angel. The radiance of the sun surrounds her, and the Holy Spirit hovers overhead as a dove. Castilian roses connecting the corners of the composition and four simple oval frames containing apparitions associated with the narrative are seventeenth-century Baroque features that the artist rendered with ease and facility.
The apparitions read from left to right, top to bottom...The first time the Virgin appears to Juan Diego, she instructs him to tell the bishop that she...wants a chapel built in her honor on Tepeyac. Juan visits Bishop Zumárraga, who rebuffs him and tells him not to return without proof. He attempts to avoid the Virgin, but she stops him and tells him to pick flowers that are blooming on top of Tepeyac. Juan dutifully collects blossoms in his cloak and brings them to the Virgin, who gathers them up in her hands, replaces them in the cloak, and tells Juan to hurry to the bishop’s house. When he opens his cloak before the bishop, a miraculous painting of Mary is revealed upon it. The stubborn bishop falls on his knees in awe, and the chapel is built.
from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif-image.library.nd.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F2002.018%2F2002_018-v0005_%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe [Our Lady of Guadalupe] is the Virgin Mary as she appeared in 1531 to Juan Diego, an Aztec convert to Christianity. The visions occurred at Tepeyac, a hill northeast of Mexico City... [and] are described in the Nican mopohua (Here It Is Recounted), an anonymous account written in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and published in 1649. The earliest painting containing the apparitions is dated 1668...In the classic pose associated with the story, she wears a crown and stands on a crescent moon supported by an angel. The radiance of the sun surrounds her, and the Holy Spirit hovers overhead as a dove. Castilian roses connecting the corners of the composition and four simple oval frames containing apparitions associated with the narrative are seventeenth-century Baroque features that the artist rendered with ease and facility.
The apparitions read from left to right, top to bottom...The first time the Virgin appears to Juan Diego, she instructs him to tell the bishop that she...wants a chapel built in her honor on Tepeyac. Juan visits Bishop Zumárraga, who rebuffs him and tells him not to return without proof. He attempts to avoid the Virgin, but she stops him and tells him to pick flowers that are blooming on top of Tepeyac. Juan dutifully collects blossoms in his cloak and brings them to the Virgin, who gathers them up in her hands, replaces them in the cloak, and tells Juan to hurry to the bishop’s house. When he opens his cloak before the bishop, a miraculous painting of Mary is revealed upon it. The stubborn bishop falls on his knees in awe, and the chapel is built.
from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif-image.library.nd.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F2002.018%2F2002_018-v0001%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe [Our Lady of Guadalupe] is the Virgin Mary as she appeared in 1531 to Juan Diego, an Aztec convert to Christianity. The visions occurred at Tepeyac, a hill northeast of Mexico City... [and] are described in the Nican mopohua (Here It Is Recounted), an anonymous account written in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and published in 1649. The earliest painting containing the apparitions is dated 1668...In the classic pose associated with the story, she wears a crown and stands on a crescent moon supported by an angel. The radiance of the sun surrounds her, and the Holy Spirit hovers overhead as a dove. Castilian roses connecting the corners of the composition and four simple oval frames containing apparitions associated with the narrative are seventeenth-century Baroque features that the artist rendered with ease and facility.
The apparitions read from left to right, top to bottom...The first time the Virgin appears to Juan Diego, she instructs him to tell the bishop that she...wants a chapel built in her honor on Tepeyac. Juan visits Bishop Zumárraga, who rebuffs him and tells him not to return without proof. He attempts to avoid the Virgin, but she stops him and tells him to pick flowers that are blooming on top of Tepeyac. Juan dutifully collects blossoms in his cloak and brings them to the Virgin, who gathers them up in her hands, replaces them in the cloak, and tells Juan to hurry to the bishop’s house. When he opens his cloak before the bishop, a miraculous painting of Mary is revealed upon it. The stubborn bishop falls on his knees in awe, and the chapel is built.
from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif-image.library.nd.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F2002.018%2F2002_018-v0002%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe [Our Lady of Guadalupe] is the Virgin Mary as she appeared in 1531 to Juan Diego, an Aztec convert to Christianity. The visions occurred at Tepeyac, a hill northeast of Mexico City... [and] are described in the Nican mopohua (Here It Is Recounted), an anonymous account written in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and published in 1649. The earliest painting containing the apparitions is dated 1668...In the classic pose associated with the story, she wears a crown and stands on a crescent moon supported by an angel. The radiance of the sun surrounds her, and the Holy Spirit hovers overhead as a dove. Castilian roses connecting the corners of the composition and four simple oval frames containing apparitions associated with the narrative are seventeenth-century Baroque features that the artist rendered with ease and facility.
The apparitions read from left to right, top to bottom...The first time the Virgin appears to Juan Diego, she instructs him to tell the bishop that she...wants a chapel built in her honor on Tepeyac. Juan visits Bishop Zumárraga, who rebuffs him and tells him not to return without proof. He attempts to avoid the Virgin, but she stops him and tells him to pick flowers that are blooming on top of Tepeyac. Juan dutifully collects blossoms in his cloak and brings them to the Virgin, who gathers them up in her hands, replaces them in the cloak, and tells Juan to hurry to the bishop’s house. When he opens his cloak before the bishop, a miraculous painting of Mary is revealed upon it. The stubborn bishop falls on his knees in awe, and the chapel is built.
from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif-image.library.nd.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F2002.018%2F2002_018-v0003%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe [Our Lady of Guadalupe] is the Virgin Mary as she appeared in 1531 to Juan Diego, an Aztec convert to Christianity. The visions occurred at Tepeyac, a hill northeast of Mexico City... [and] are described in the Nican mopohua (Here It Is Recounted), an anonymous account written in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and published in 1649. The earliest painting containing the apparitions is dated 1668...In the classic pose associated with the story, she wears a crown and stands on a crescent moon supported by an angel. The radiance of the sun surrounds her, and the Holy Spirit hovers overhead as a dove. Castilian roses connecting the corners of the composition and four simple oval frames containing apparitions associated with the narrative are seventeenth-century Baroque features that the artist rendered with ease and facility.
The apparitions read from left to right, top to bottom...The first time the Virgin appears to Juan Diego, she instructs him to tell the bishop that she...wants a chapel built in her honor on Tepeyac. Juan visits Bishop Zumárraga, who rebuffs him and tells him not to return without proof. He attempts to avoid the Virgin, but she stops him and tells him to pick flowers that are blooming on top of Tepeyac. Juan dutifully collects blossoms in his cloak and brings them to the Virgin, who gathers them up in her hands, replaces them in the cloak, and tells Juan to hurry to the bishop’s house. When he opens his cloak before the bishop, a miraculous painting of Mary is revealed upon it. The stubborn bishop falls on his knees in awe, and the chapel is built.
from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif-image.library.nd.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F2002.018%2F2002_018-v0004%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
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